black look

black look

An expression of anger, hatred, or utter contempt. I tried to apologize for what I said, but she gave me such a black look that I knew it wasn't the right time to talk to her yet.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

black look

see under dirty look.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

a black ˈlook

an angry or a disapproving expression on somebody’s face: She gave me a black look when I suggested she should clean her room.
See also: black, look
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a black look
  • F (someone or something)
  • be on bad terms (with someone)
  • be on good, bad, friendly, etc. terms
  • friendly
  • on bad terms
  • squeak out
References in periodicals archive
Says designer Nandita Mehtani, " The goth black look is very different from the elitist black made popular by Chanel's ' little black dress' in the post war period.
The reason for the black look in the 1960s and 70s was so that television viewers with black and white sets could distinguish between Wales and the other nations, who donned white shorts.
The celebrity duo looked all teamed up with their kids as Maddox, Pax, 10, Shiloh, 8, and Knox, 51/2, wore suit jackets and vests paired with gray, khaki and navy shaded trousers to compliment their parents dark attire, while 9-year-old Zahara went for a gold and black look with face paint.
This dissatisfaction is so profound that even when many of these women somehow find themselves with a natural black look, they bleach the hair and dye it blonde.
When I asked how he got the job there and where he went for an interview - to try to ascertain where in England I could contact someone - again a black look. He could however furnish me with a number in India.
A BLACK look from Mother Goose has seen nature photographer John Short add another prize to a long list of awards.
Brunette, dark skin Gold, dark plum and black look great for smoky eyes, while lips can be striking with rich and warm shades like big bold reds.
TOM Daley and husband Dustin Lance Black look lost in a world of their own in a romantic image from their wedding posted online by the loved-up couple.
So it's time the dream was over, No more mystery tours, Or crawling around those Hamburg I fooled you all with that image, I made black look so white, I made the most of all the fun, Now I'll shine on with the fight, Or maybe I'll just hide away, Once again to be free, Just like that fisherman inside me, Drifting away to sea.
Instead of avoiding a direct confrontation with those who took it upon themselves to taxonomize and specularize blackness, as did Pennington, Douglass engaged ethnographic discourse openly throughout the 1850s, and although his multiple, sometimes contradictory, points of view seem strategically to normalize miscegenation, his insistence that the black look conceives of blackness differently than the colonial gaze practiced by white ethnographers marks a fundamental break from autoethnography and antebellum slave narratives.
Trefor Jenkins, front, and Colin Black look optimistic about the future after their successful management buy-in at Worcester-based Clarcon.
Richard Foster and Ian Black look set to miss out again with longer term injury victims Arnold Peralta and Jon Daly also out.
Wahlberg is starting to make Messrs Carrey, Ferrell and Black look like comedy amateurs.
THIS season is all about colour - whether that's the lack of it, as in the black on black look, or vivid primary hues.
Have I given up driving because an impatient motorist gives me a black look every four months - of course not.